Adding up all the numbers
Patrick Walsh’s quest to return high school athletics to the fields and courts took a step up in the media world — which just so happened to coincide with my
By Nathan Mollat Daily Journal Staff
Patrick Walsh’s quest to return high school athletics to the fields and courts took a step up in the media world — which just so happened to coincide with my report about Walsh’s Golden State HS Football Coaches Community that appeared in Tuesday’s edition of the Daily Journal.
Tuesday morning, both the Serra head football coach and coaching colleague Justin Alumbaugh of De La Salle, Walsh’s alma mater, were on KNBR’s “Murph and Mac Show,” discussing the coaches’ attempt to present health officials with more data that might persuade them to let youth sports return to the state.
Walsh — who founded GSHSFCC as a way for coaches to come together to strategize how to gain the attention of health officials — wants to get his information, ultimately, into the hands of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“We would love to provide this data to Gov. Newsom,” Walsh said on KNBR.
While both coaches were adamant that they believe bringing youth sports back can be done safely, they both agreed that they want to do it when the time is right.
“I hate the misnomer that we’re just a bunch of meatheads out there. We’re just trying to get out there, trying to win a football game, or something like that. … We would never do that. We don’t want anyone getting sick,” Alumbaugh said. “We are not trying to do something unsafe. We are not trying to go rogue.”
